Featured: Privacy News Online – Week of April 9th, 2021 Workplace surveillance is entering our homes and driving through our streets Surveillance in the workplace is nothing new, but there are far more people working in places where other people may be in view and have their privacy unjustly compromised. One great example is the … Continue reading “Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: April 9, 2021”
The American Civil Liberties Union, or ACLU or short, is a regular critic of Facebook for its many privacy failures over the years. Yet, a recent update to its privacy statement reveals that they may share your personal information with Facebook if you use their website: we may share your personal information with communications platforms, … Continue reading “ACLU shares user data with Facebook and friends”
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has the ability to break into encrypted phones and laptops, and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is suing so that the public can finally learn about how it is done. The encryption breaking is allegedly done by the FBI’s Electronic Device Analysis Unit (EDAU). Public documents have alluded … Continue reading “ACLU sues to find out how the FBI is breaking into encrypted devices”
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed suit against the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Department of Justice (DoJ), and the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). The case was filed in a Massachusetts federal court on Tuesday, October 29th. The filing asks for details about how the government currently uses and audits the use … Continue reading “ACLU sues to find out status of facial recognition mass surveillance in America”
For all the theoretical concerns about the limitations of facial recognition systems, there’s nothing like personal experience to hammer the point home. That was confirmed recently when the ACLU ran an interesting experiment using Amazon’s cloud-based Rekognition system, which Privacy News Online discussed a couple of months back: Using Rekognition, we built a face database … Continue reading “US politicians discover personally the pitfalls of facial recognition: is it time to ban it completely?”